Scottish Parliament Business Exchange

SPBE claims

Members sign up to, and programmes are planned and delivered, under certain key principles

*Non-lobbying and non-partisan

*Mutual trust - access to learning with respect for highly sensitive information (commercial/political)

*Transparent and open

*Responsive to the interests of MSPs Policies safeguarding these principles include:

*letter of undertaking from participants and hosts respectively, relating to placement programmes

*acknowledging, where appropriate, specific programme topics subject to commercial confidentiality

*publication by The Exchange of programme costs

*guidelines to MSPs from Clerk to Standards Committee on registration of interests

*surveys of MSPs' interests and circulating of programme ideas for MSPs' responses

Source: [1]

Members

• BAA Scottish Airports,
• British Energy,
• BP,
• ConocoPhillips, *Chevron Texaco, *Deutsche Bank AG, *Essentiagroup, *IBM, *Lloyds TSB Scotland, *Scottish Council Development and Industry, *Scottish Enterprise, *Scottish Financial Enterprise, *Scottish Parliament, *Scottish Power plc, *Shell International, *Scottish and Southern Energy, Shepherd & Wedderburn W.S.,Pfizer Ltd, *The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, VisitScotland, SELECT, ArupScotland, General Medical Council, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Highland Airways.

Spinwatch Resources

• David Miller, a question of privilege Spinwatch, Nov-Dec 2002
• David Miller, Corporate power, institutional corruption, Spinwatch, September/October 2003
• David Miller, Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution Spinwatch, 6 September 2004

http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=304

External links

SPBE website [2]]